US president says venue was ‘not a particularly secure building’ as man is held after shots fired at annual press dinner
Here is a quick clip that Donald Trump posted on Truth Social of what appears to be surveillance footage of the purported shooting incident at the White House correspondents’ dinner.
Here are some images coming in over the wires showing investigators and members of the media converging on the home of the suspected gunman in California:
Continue reading...Kenyan wins men’s race in 1hr 59mins 30secs
Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa defends her women’s title
They call Sabastian Sawe the silent assassin. But it was impossible to ignore the beautiful destruction on the streets of London as the 30-year-old Kenyan became the first athlete to shatter the two-hour barrier in an official race.
As Sawe crossed the line on the Mall, the clock showed that he had run 26.2 miles in a staggering 1 hour, 59mins and 30 seconds – 65 seconds faster than the previous best set by Kelvin Kiptum in 2023.
Continue reading...The reaction among officials in Germany to his bestselling novel has been hostile. As Mayfly Season is published in the UK, its author explains why
A few weeks after the German publication of his debut novel in 2024, author Matthias Jügler received a call from an employee at the German government agency tasked with investigating the human rights abuses of the socialist east.
The call wasn’t overtly threatening; Jügler was asked to explain what historical source material he had consulted for Mayfly Season and which period he was planning to tackle in his next book. But it came after another government official had accused him of traumatising some of his readership, and after the organiser of a reading had asked him to bring along documents proving the plausibility of his book’s plot.
Continue reading...Leaders have thrown up walls and barriers throughout history – but their effects are unpredictable
Four millennia ago, a Sumerian king, his frontier beset by nomadic tribes fleeing prolonged drought in their own lands, ordered the construction of the world’s first border wall: a 177km-long boundary laid in stone between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Since humanity’s earliest city-states and kingdoms arose in ancient Mesopotamia, walls, ditches and fences have defended territory, marked the edges of empires and projected political power across the void. But the world’s first border wall failed. It now lies buried beneath Iraq’s desert sands. Rome’s legions abandoned Hadrian’s Wall long ago, and the iron curtain’s razor-wire fences fell with the eastern bloc’s collapse in the late 1980s.
Continue reading...The party has been pressured to avoid ‘woke’ policies. Instead, Democrats must stand firmly for equality and invest in mobilization
Too many Democrats believe that fighting for justice and equality is a losing proposition. This gets boiled down to the shorthand that Donald Trump won because Democrats were too “woke” and paid insufficient attention to the economic issues voters really care about, driving those voters away.
This mindset is misguided and potentially politically suicidal. Explicitly and aggressively fighting for justice and equality is the best – and possibly the only – winning strategy at this stage of US history.
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Continue reading...Exposure of world’s reliance on Middle East supplies accelerates global shift towards new energy superpowers
In the open seas, an armada of empty tankers has quietly turned west. A record number of super-sized vessels are now heading to the US, where oil drillers and refineries are preparing to profit from Donald Trump’s war in the Middle East.
Almost 30 of these vessels, each able to hold 2m barrels of oil, are contracted to load US crude, destined for a global market facing the biggest supply crisis in history.
Continue reading...opinion You’ve had your laptop for months, and you’ve always made sure it installed Microsoft updates. Then one day you boot up, and Windows 11 greets you with a confusing message: “You’re almost done setting up your PC.”…
BRUSSEL (ANP) - NAVO-topman Mark Rutte heeft geschokt gereageerd op de aanval op het mediagala met president Donald Trump. De secretaris-generaal schreef op X dat hij opgelucht is dat Trump, zijn echtgenote en de andere gasten veilig zijn. "Dit was een aanval op onze vrije en open samenlevingen. Wij staan voor de democratie en zijn solidair met de Verenigde Staten."
Bij het White House Correspondents' Dinner in een hotel in Washington was een gewapende man door een controlepost gerend. Daarna klonken schoten en ontstond chaos. Trump en andere regeringskopstukken werden geëvacueerd en andere aanwezigen doken onder tafels. De verdachte kon volgens de autoriteiten worden opgepakt voordat hij de zaal bereikte waar de bijeenkomst plaatsvond.
JEREZ (ANP) - Motorracer Collin Veijer heeft zijn eerste poleposition in de Moto2 niet kunnen bekronen met de winst. De 20-jarige Staphorster eindigde bij de Grote Prijs van Madrid op de derde plaats. De Australiër Senna Agius won, voor Manuel González uit Spanje.
Veijer moest bij de start zijn eerste positie afgeven aan González en slaagde er niet in de koppositie terug te pakken.
Veijer heeft in de WK-stand na vier races 29,5 punten en staat daarmee op de negende plek. González gaat aan de leiding in het kampioenschap en heeft 59,5 punten.
RHOON (ANP) - In het Zuid-Hollandse dorp Rhoon is op zondagmorgen een parachutist overleden. Dat bevestigt de politie na berichtgeving van regionale omroep Rijnmond. De persoon werd gevonden aan de Essendijk.
De eerste melding kwam volgens de politie rond 11.45 uur binnen. Dat was een reanimatieverzoek. Volgens de woordvoerder mocht reanimatie niet baten, de persoon was overleden.
Wat er precies is gebeurd met de parachutist is niet bekend. De politie doet onderzoek maar gaat voorlopig uit van een ongeval. De persoon droeg een parachute die open werd aangetroffen.
Afgelopen vrijdag werd Annelies Kastein (65) Ridder in de Orde van Oranje Nassau. Ze is oprichter van stichting Eet Mee, die mensen in Utrecht en omgeving aanspoort thuis te koken voor vluchtelingen. NRC schoof aan.